Purpose Research based on Bangladesh–US trade data examines the Heckscher–Ohlin model and Rybczynski hypothesis in this study. Design/methodology/approach Ordinary least square (OLS) techniques are used study, which relies from NBER International Trade Geography Data UN Comtrade Database for years 2018 2008. Findings The research shows that between United States Bangladesh follows Rybcyzinski's...

Study of the factor content of trade has become a laboratory to test our ideas about how the key elements of endowments, production, absorption and trade fit together within a general equilibrium framework. Already a great deal of progress has been made in fitting these pieces together. Nevertheless, the existing research raises a great many questions that should help to focus empirical researc...

The promotion of human welfare is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges of economic development. To achieve this, many developing countries adopted trade liberalisation in the late 1980s, premised on the theoretical evidence based on the definitive Heckscher-Ohlin theory which predicts gains for the poor. The empirical support for this theory, however, is at best mixed. This paper employs ...

Leamer and Levinsohn (1995) have recently proposed a formula for empirical work in international microeconomics summarized by the injunction to “Estimate, Don’t Test!” This is based on a perception that much of the empirical work has failed to be influential as it tests propositions we know ex ante to be false. We argue that the empirical work has been more influential than they suggest. We use...

This paper investigates the determinants of intraindustry trade IIT , horizontal IIT HIIT , and Vertical IIT VIIT in the automobile industry in Portugal. The trade in this sector between Portugal and the European Union EU-27 was examined, between 1995 and 2008, using a dynamic panel data. We apply the GMM system to solve the problems of serial correlation and the endogeneity of some explanatory...